It's that coveted day of the year -- when boys and girls become men and women, chefs become better chefs, and all of the media will immediately start debating who deserved a James Beard nomination and who didn't. Get excited!

Mom is finally selling houses! Problem is she isn’t licensed. No big whoop for her, the test will be a breeze! Except she freaks when she meets Kim, a mega realtor who’s sold 358 houses and is getting recertified. She walks out of the test, assuaging her failure with a Chipwitch. Mmmm…now that’s something I can get behind: Chipwitch and a mostly Mom-centric episode.

But could it be that England is tiring of its creme de la creme? According to Express writer Janie Lawrence, oversaturation is a problem:

“When did the middle class become such cookery bores? I should probably lay my cards on the table and confess I hate cooking. I operate one golden rule: if it can’t be done on the hob it’s not worth the faff. I’m happier still if I can bung it into the microwave.

Yet surely I’m not the only person fed up with the sheer volume of these 21st-century evangelists in high-tech kitchens. No wonder we’re all getting fat.

Were a visiting alien to spend a week watching British telly they’d get the distinct impression we’re monomaniacal about food. Within the past decade telly chefs have multiplied like some form of triffid.”

We don’t watch British TV except for ripping Skins in obsessive binges and streaming Downton Abbey ahead of time (just kidding, internet police!). But if Gordon Ramsay’s dozen or so TV shows Stateside are any indication of the number of celebrity chefs clogging primetime across the pond, we suppose she has a point.

Plus, there’s the insanely unrealistic cost of cooking the kinds of meals chefs demo on TV. We know; we hate-watch a lot of Barefoot Contessa. Explains Jamie:

“For most of us it’s the telly equivalent of flicking through a sumptuous magazine and realising that however much you’d like top Italian furniture your own reality is Ikea.

For every one that can afford to fork out for goats’ cheese or organic meat there are many others for whom the daily chore of feeding a hungry family puts both well out of their reach.”

But for all of England’s alleged celebrity chef weariness, Waitrose’s reported a record-breaking holiday sales period due largely in part to customers showing up in droves to purchase Heston Blumenthal’s branded holiday food items like hidden sauce figgy pudding and chocolate Christmas cake.

In any case, Great Britain, we’re happy to snatch Nigella Lawson off your TVs for a season while she judges The Taste on ABC this winter. (Although we secretly suspect you’ll begin to miss her.)